Create more value with greater efficiency!

When you work with us, you get an efficiency partner who is invested in your success — now and in the future. We understand the challenge of growing a business in Maine because we have started and grown our own businesses here. Ever since our founding in 2014 by Pat Coon and Fred Horch, we’ve helped our clients squeeze the most value out of their buildings, while keeping their equipment working reliably day in and day out.

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Gelato Fiasco Flavor Foundry

When Gelato Fiasco decided to expand their flavor foundry in Brunswick, Maine, they turned to Spark to design and develop an innovative system that recovers energy from gelato making to heat their space, melt snow in their loading dock, and improve their process efficiency. The savings were so substantial compared to a conventional coooling system that Spark was able to secure a custom incentive from Efficiency Maine to accelerate the project’s financial payback.

Foulmouthed Brewing

Foulmouthed partnered with Spark to convert an old auto garage in South Portland, Maine, into a brewpub that pairs seasonally rotating cuisine and cocktails with unique beers. While Foulmouthed is pushing the boundaries of modern comfort food to showcase their eclectic tap list, behind the scenes Spark is pushing the efficiency envelope. We’ve paired the Spark Hood Tamer, minimizing heating and cooling losses through the kitchen hood, with high-efficiency heat pumps for heating, cooling and refrigeration.

Wicked Joe Coffee Roastery

Spark’s first client, Wicked Joe’s Coffee Roastery features a solar wall, solar photovoltaics, an electric vehicle charging station, LED lighting, motion sensors, and heat pump hot water heaters. In conjunction with the high-efficiency coffee roasters that the business brought with them from their former location, these efficiency measures give Wicked Joe a sustainable competitive advantage in lower operating costs to produce a superior product for a demanding market.

Portland Food Co-op

During the design of the Portland Food Co-op, a volunteer design committee, Warren Construction Group, and Spark Applied Efficiency worked together to identify cost-effective energy-saving projects to advance the co-op’s mission of sustainability and affordability. By including efficiency experts from the beginning, key decisions could be prioritized with operating costs and other important long-term impacts in mind. As a result of this collaboration, the team was able to improve the building’s energy performance within a tight budget.

As a result, the co-op uses approximately 40% of the energy that an average grocery store uses, according to calculations by architects Kaplan Thompson.

Green Clean Maine

Green Clean Maine hired Spark to upgrade its corporate headquarters to warmer LED lighting, while slashing its lighting bills by more than 68%. In each fixture, Spark used a single warm-color-temperature LED lamp to replace two harsh fluorescent lamps.

Androscoggin Animal Hospital

Androscoggin Animal Hospital partnered with Spark Applied Efficiency to upgrade to efficient, long-lasting LED lighting throughout its veterinary clinic, cutting in more than half the amount of electricity needed to keep the lights on. The power savings in lighting alone is enough to power the entire electrical load of two average houses in Maine.